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| 2 | This file is for thanks to individuals or organisations who have | 
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| 3 | helped with the development of Samba, other than by coding or bug | 
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| 4 | reports. Their contributions are gratefully acknowledged. | 
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| 5 |  | 
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| 6 | Please refer to the manual pages and change-log for a list of those | 
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| 7 | who have contributed in the form of patches, bug fixes or other | 
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| 8 | direct changes to the package. | 
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| 9 |  | 
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| 10 | Contributions of any kind are welcomed. If you want to help then | 
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| 11 | please contact Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au, or via normal mail at | 
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| 12 |  | 
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| 13 | Andrew Tridgell | 
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| 14 | 3 Ballow Crescent | 
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| 15 | Macgregor, A.C.T | 
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| 16 | 2615 Australia | 
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| 17 | ===================================================================== | 
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| 18 |  | 
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| 19 |  | 
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| 20 | Lee Fisher (leefi@microsoft.com) | 
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| 21 | Charles Fox (cfox@microsoft.com) | 
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| 22 | Dan Perry (danp@exchnge.microsoft.com) | 
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| 23 | Paul Leach (paulle@microsoft.com) | 
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| 24 | Isaac Heizer (isaache@microsoft.com) | 
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| 25 |  | 
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| 26 | These Microsoft people have been very helpful and supportive of | 
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| 27 | the development of Samba over some years. | 
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| 28 |  | 
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| 29 | Lee very kindly supplied me with a copy of the X/Open SMB | 
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| 30 | specs. These have been invaluable in getting the details of the | 
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| 31 | implementation right. They will become even more important as we move | 
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| 32 | towards a Lanman 2.1 compliant server. Lee has provided very | 
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| 33 | useful advice on several aspects of the server. | 
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| 34 | Lee has also provided me with copies of Windows NTAS 3.1, Visual C | 
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| 35 | and a developers CD-ROM. Being able to run NT at home is a | 
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| 36 | great help. | 
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| 37 |  | 
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| 38 | Charles has helped out in numerous ways with the provision of SMB | 
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| 39 | specifications and helpful advice. He has been following the | 
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| 40 | discussion of Samba on the mailing list and has stepped in | 
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| 41 | regularly to clarify points and to offer help. | 
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| 42 |  | 
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| 43 | Dan has put me in touch with NT developers to help sort out bugs and | 
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| 44 | compatability issues. He has also supplied me with a copy of the | 
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| 45 | NT browsing spec, which will help a lot in the development of the | 
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| 46 | Samba browser code. | 
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| 47 |  | 
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| 48 | Paul was responsible for Microsoft paying my flight to Seattle for the | 
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| 49 | first CIFS conference (see http://samba.org/cifs) and has been | 
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| 50 | generally helpful and cooperative as the SMB community moves towards | 
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| 51 | an Internet-ready specification. Isaac has regularly provided help on | 
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| 52 | the behaviour of NT networks. | 
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| 53 |  | 
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| 54 | Bruce Perens (bruce@pixar.com) | 
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| 55 |  | 
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| 56 | In appreciation of his effort on Samba we have sent Andrew copies of | 
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| 57 | various Pixar computer-graphics software products. Pixar is best known | 
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| 58 | for its "Renderman" product, the 3-D renderer used by ILM to make special | 
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| 59 | effects for "Terminator II" and "Jurassic Park". We won the first Oscar | 
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| 60 | given to a computer graphic animated feature for our short film "Tin Toy". | 
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| 61 | Our retail products "Typestry" and "Showplace", incorporate the same | 
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| 62 | renderer used on the films, and are available on Windows and the | 
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| 63 | Macintosh. | 
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| 64 |  | 
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| 65 |  | 
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| 66 |  | 
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| 67 | Henry Lee (hyl@microplex.co) | 
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| 68 |  | 
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| 69 | Henry sent me a M202 ethernet print server, making my little lan | 
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| 70 | one of the few home networks to have it's own print server! | 
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| 71 |  | 
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| 72 | ``Microplex Systems Ltd. is a manufacturer of local and wide area | 
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| 73 | network communications equipment based in beautiful Vancouver, British | 
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| 74 | Columbia, Canada.  Microplex's first products were synchronous wide | 
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| 75 | area network devices used in the mainframe communication networks.  In | 
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| 76 | August 1991 Microplex introduced its first LAN product, the M200 print | 
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| 77 | server, the first high performance print server under US$1,000.'' | 
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| 78 |  | 
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| 79 |  | 
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| 80 | Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com) | 
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| 81 |  | 
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| 82 | Tom sent me two 16 bit SMC ethernet cards to replace my ancient 8 | 
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| 83 | bit ones. The performance is much better! | 
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| 84 |  | 
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| 85 | Software Metrics Inc. is a small custom software development and | 
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| 86 | consulting firm located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.  We work | 
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| 87 | with a variety of environments (such as Windows, Windows NT and | 
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| 88 | Unix), tools and application areas, and can provide assistance for | 
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| 89 | development work ranging from a few days to multiple man-year | 
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| 90 | projects.  You can find more information at http://www.metrics.com/. | 
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| 91 |  | 
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| 92 |  | 
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| 93 | Steve Kennedy (steve@gbnet.net) | 
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| 94 |  | 
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| 95 | Steve sent me 16Mb of ram so that I could install/test | 
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| 96 | NT3.5. I previous had only 8Mb ram in my test machine, which | 
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| 97 | wasn't enough to install a properly functioning copy of | 
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| 98 | NTAS. Being able to directly test NT3.5 allowed me to solve | 
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| 99 | several long standing NT<->Samba problems. Thanks Steve! | 
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| 100 |  | 
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| 101 | John Terpstra (jht@aquasoft.com.au) | 
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| 102 |  | 
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| 103 | Aquasoft are a specialist consulting company whose Samba-using | 
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| 104 | customers span the world. | 
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| 105 |  | 
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| 106 | Aquasoft have been avid supporters of the Samba project. As a | 
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| 107 | token of appreciation Aquasoft have donated a 486DX2/66 PC with | 
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| 108 | a 540MB EIDE drive and 20MB RAM. | 
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| 109 |  | 
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| 110 | John has helped to isolate quite a few little glitches over time | 
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| 111 | and has managed to implement some very interesting installations | 
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| 112 | of Samba. | 
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| 113 |  | 
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| 114 | The donation of the new PC will make it possible to more fully | 
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| 115 | diagnose and observe the behaviour of Samba in conjuction with | 
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| 116 | other SMB protocol utilising systems. | 
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| 117 |  | 
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| 118 |  | 
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| 119 | Timothy F. Sipples (tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM) | 
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| 120 | Steve Withers (swithers@vnet.IBM.COM) | 
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| 121 |  | 
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| 122 | Tim and Steve from IBM organised a copy of the OS/2 developers | 
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| 123 | connection CD set for me, and gave lots of help in getting | 
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| 124 | OS/2 Warp installed. I hope this will allow me to finally fix | 
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| 125 | up those annoying OS/2 related Samba bugs that I have been | 
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| 126 | receiving reports of. | 
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| 127 |  | 
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| 128 | Keith Wilkins (wilki1k@nectech.co.uk) | 
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| 129 |  | 
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| 130 | Keith from NEC in England very generously supplied a PC to | 
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| 131 | Luke Leighton to help with his nmbd development work. At the | 
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| 132 | same time Keith offered to help me with some new hardware, and | 
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| 133 | he sent me a pentium motherboard with 32MB of ram | 
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| 134 | onboard. This was very helpful as it allowed me to upgrade | 
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| 135 | my aging server to be a very powerful system. Thanks! | 
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| 136 |  | 
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